Workflow builders that connect models to your apps and data.
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Workflow automation with a visual node editor and AI agent nodes, run on your own server under a fair-code licence or as n8n Cloud. Aimed at technical teams.
Visual no-code builder of scenarios linking apps, data and AI models, available only as a cloud service. Common for automating business processes without code.
No-code automation between web apps, now with AI steps and agents, offered only in the cloud. Quick to set up for linking popular services.
Open-source automation builder you can host yourself or use in the cloud, with AI pieces and MCP support — an open alternative to Zapier.
Open-source platform for building LLM apps from agents, RAG knowledge bases and visual workflows, self-hosted or in the cloud, for chatbots over your own data.
Workflow builders connect a model to the rest of your tools: a new email arrives, a model summarises it, the summary goes to a chat channel and a row is added to a spreadsheet. You assemble such flows from blocks in a visual editor instead of writing a program. This page lists n8n, Make, Zapier, Activepieces and Dify.
Terms and prices are those on the vendor's page on the date shown on the card. Free plans of cloud builders are generous enough to test an idea, but they cap the number of runs or operations per month, so estimate your volume before you settle on one.
The main decision is where the tool runs. n8n, Activepieces and Dify can be installed on your own server, which keeps data under your control and removes per-task fees, at the cost of maintaining the server. Make and Zapier are cloud services: nothing to install, but you pay by the number of operations or tasks, and a free plan limits the runs per month. A small VPS is usually enough to host a self-hosted builder.
Zapier and Make are quick for linking popular web apps without technical knowledge. n8n suits technical teams that want code nodes and AI agents next to ordinary steps. Activepieces is an open alternative with a similar approach. Dify is aimed less at connecting apps and more at building chatbots and assistants over your own documents.
Whichever you choose, the model behind the AI steps is a separate choice: see the leaderboards for quality and the API providers for access.